Studio - A play within a play, through David Hockney
“Every image is the story of a perspective on something.”
David Hockney in Une Histoire des Images, Solar Editions, 2016
An image is never completely trivial and a painting always features a point of view. Through a few targeted operations divided into three acts around a selection of David Hockney's paintings, students were invited to choose one of the artist's paintings and to extract all the data from it.
Act 1 consisted in noting and assembling the spaces of the paintings in three dimensions, integrating the painter's sensation and subjectivity as well as that of the students.
Act 2 enabled the students to become familiar with the scenography of the space, and in groups the students then had to immerse the viewers into the newly-obtained spaces from the paintings.
Finally act 3, which was disrupted by the pandemic, turned the studio into an imaginary factory of Hockneysian refuges or kits to prepare for the confinement of tomorrow.
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